No one commented on my images. Did you look at them? The spherical was
shot with a D200 and a Sigma 15 mm. The zoomify was shot a few moments
later with the same D200 and a Nikon 80-300 mm zoom at 300 mm.

Paul

Woody Howard

Paul, The location and time of day area awesome. You, I and many others are trying to learn from the experience that is available in this group. The only way

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Paul,

The location and time of day area awesome.

You, I and many others are trying to learn from the experience that is
available in this group. The only way to do that is to "publish" our work
and accept the critiquing of those that have more experience.

Lord knows I'm just a newbie to all of this but I'd suggest running the
images through PTGui to get a better blend of the images and loose the seam.
For the nadir you need to lose the "pucker", even if you don't have a nadir
shot. I would cap it, fix it or limit the view.

Woody

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Paul Fretheim

Sorry I forgot to list the number of shots with each lens. The winter scene spherical was shot with a D200 with a Sigma 15 and I shot 3 rows of 12 shots for

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Sorry I forgot to list the number of shots with each lens.

The winter scene spherical was shot with a D200 with a Sigma 15 and I
shot 3 rows of 12 shots for roughly 38 images in all.

There is a sign which says "Road Closed." But you can drive around it
and go as far as you can and nobody will say anything. They just put
that sign up so you can't sue them for not clearing the road if you get
in trouble. I live in Independence and that is where the next paved
road leads up into the Sierra. It has been plowed to the top at 9,200
feet, but the sign still says "Road Closed" at about 6,500 feet. I
drove my Mercedes station wagon up there to the top last week.

Paul Fretheim

Ron Rack

Paul, Yes, very spectacular scenery there, I will be visiting Sequoia NP in about 3 weeks, hope to get one or two nifty panos there, unfortunately I will only

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Paul,
Yes, very spectacular scenery there, I will be visiting Sequoia NP in
about 3 weeks, hope to get one or two nifty panos there, unfortunately
I will only be there less than 2 days :-(
Your panos could be improved by cleaning up zenith and nadir which
show strange artifacts and there is a very obvious seam in the pano,
good luck and keep showing us the spectacular views.

ron rack
http://360around .com

On May 1, 2010, at 10:39 AM, Paul Fretheim wrote:

> Sorry I forgot to list the number of shots with each lens.
>
> The winter scene spherical was shot with a D200 with a Sigma 15 and I
> shot 3 rows of 12 shots for roughly 38 images in all.
>
> http://inyopro.com/images/whitney_winter_LP_campground.html
>
> I shot 31 image with the 300 mm and covered a bit more area that is
> displayed in the image used.
>
> http://inyopro.com/images/Mt_Whitney.htm
>
> Here is a link to an image pulled out of Jurgen's spherical with an
> arrow indicating which peak is Mt. Whitney.
>
> http://inyopro.com/images/mt_whitney.jpg
>
> There is a sign which says "Road Closed." But you can drive around it
> and go as far as you can and nobody will say anything. They just put
> that sign up so you can't sue them for not clearing the road if you
> get
> in trouble. I live in Independence and that is where the next paved
> road leads up into the Sierra. It has been plowed to the top at 9,200
> feet, but the sign still says "Road Closed" at about 6,500 feet. I
> drove my Mercedes station wagon up there to the top last week.
>
> Paul Fretheim
>
>

> ... zenith and nadir? Looks as if you edited it in equirectangular
> directly...

I think you're right, Erik. There's clear evidence of the nadir hole being cloned out directly on the equirectangular image. The cloning is best done on an extracted recilinear view of the nadir area, eg. using the Photoshop plugins by Rune Spaans at

> Hi Paul,
>
> You have captured a very beautiful morning light scennery, thanks for sharing :-)
>
> Can you explain what kind of footprints we can see in the snow going off road towards the sun ?
> Human or animal ?
>
> Thank you.
>
> G.

Those are either coyote tracks (I think they are) or, possibly
jackrabbit tracks.

Paul Fretheim

I guess I am of the opinion that nobody cares about the nadir or zenith. I didn t do anything about them whatsoever. They are what they are. The problem with

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I guess I am of the opinion that nobody cares about the nadir or zenith.
I didn't do anything about them whatsoever. They are what they are.
The problem with the stitching between the 4Runner and the Sun is
because the light changed over the time it took to go around. I
probably should fix that, but, overall I thing it is an artistic piece
that transmits the moment pretty well.

John Riley

Paul, I just noticed that I had two earlier messages in this thread from you that my ISP s filter had identified as containing a virus. Maybe no one commented

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Paul, I just noticed that I had two earlier messages in this thread from you that my ISP's filter had identified as containing a virus. Maybe no one commented because they were filtered?

Attachment or not, my ISP thinking it had a virus prevented it from being delivered to me. This explained, at least to me, my reaction of Comment on what

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Attachment or not, my ISP thinking it had a virus prevented it from being delivered to me. This explained, at least to me, my reaction of "Comment on what image?": I never saw the message! Maybe I wasn't the only one.

> I don't think you can have attachments on this list John.
>
> s
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: PanoToolsNG@yahoogroups.com [mailto:PanoToolsNG@yahoogroups.com] On
> Behalf Of John Riley
> Sent: Monday, May 03, 2010 9:21 AM
> To: PanoToolsNG@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [PanoToolsNG] Re: Mt. Whitney at sunrise
>
> Paul, I just noticed that I had two earlier messages in this thread from you
> that my ISP's filter had identified as containing a virus. Maybe no one
> commented because they were filtered?
>
> John
>
> John Riley
> johnriley@...
> (h)864-461-3504
> (c)864-431-7075
> (w)864-503-5775
>
>

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Erik Krause

... Well, then there s no point to publish as full spherical. You could limit the FoV, which would be way better... ... That s absolutely right. However, the

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Am 02.05.2010 17:45, schrieb Paul Fretheim:

> I guess I am of the opinion that nobody cares about the nadir or zenith.

Well, then there's no point to publish as full spherical. You could
limit the FoV, which would be way better...

> I didn't do anything about them whatsoever. They are what they are.
> The problem with the stitching between the 4Runner and the Sun is
> because the light changed over the time it took to go around. I
> probably should fix that, but, overall I thing it is an artistic piece
> that transmits the moment pretty well.

That's absolutely right. However, the impression of the moment can be
spoiled by a (completely un-artistic) vertical line in the view.
Normally the blender takes care of this. What software did you use?

> I didn't do anything about them whatsoever. They are what they are.
>> The problem with the stitching between the 4Runner and the Sun is
>> because the light changed over the time it took to go around. I
>> probably should fix that, but, overall I thing it is an artistic piece
>> that transmits the moment pretty well.
>
> That's absolutely right. However, the impression of the moment can be
> spoiled by a (completely un-artistic) vertical line in the view.
> Normally the blender takes care of this. What software did you use?

Lightroom, Photoshop, PTGui, Pano2VR

Paul

Paul Fretheim

... from you ... I was using COMODO public domain virus protection software. It interfered with my copy of Adobe InDesign, I removed COMODO and ran without

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>
> Paul, I just noticed that I had two earlier messages in this thread

from you

> that my ISP's filter had identified as containing a virus. Maybe no one
> commented because they were filtered?

I was using COMODO public domain virus protection software. It
interfered with my copy of Adobe InDesign, I removed COMODO and ran
without virus protection for a few hours before I got avast installed.
I guess I better do a scan.

Thanks.

Paul

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